On February 19th, 2009, Governor Kaine asked the Federal government to delay oil and gas exploration off the Virginia coast. Attorney General Bob McDonnell and […]
David Schnare
Dr. David Schnare, Esq., Ph.D. is an attorney and scientist with 40 years of federal and private sector experience consulting on and litigating local, state, federal and international environmental legislative, regulatory, risk management and free-market environmentalism issues.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina (1979) and Juris Doctor Cum Laude from the George Mason University School of Law (1999).
Formerly the nation’s Chief Regulatory Analyst for Small Business in (Office of Small Business Advocacy), Dr. Schnare has experience on Congressional staff, as a trial lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of the Virginia Attorney General, as senior enforcement counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and as an appellate attorney for private clients. He is a member of the Bars of the United States Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second and Fourth Circuits, and the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Dr. Schnare is an administrative law specialist and has served on the ABA’s Administrative Law Council and as Deputy Chairman of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section’s Continuing Education Committee. His practice has included a federal, state and local caseload. He maintains an active program of academic research supporting local and state legislative initiatives and has federal regulatory experience with EPA, OSHA, IRS, NMFS, NOAA, FDA, HRSA, ATSDR, CDC, FAA, Bu.Rec., BLM, MMS, FWS, and the Corps of Engineers. In addition to his position as a Senior Attorney in EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Dr. Schnare is Director of the Center for Environmental Stewardship at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy (pro bono). He has served as a Director of the George Mason University School of Law Alumni Association Board, and serves as Director of the Occoquan Watershed Coalition and as Chairman of the Coalition’s Environment and Land Use Committee.
In addition to legal responsibilities, Dr. Schnare has managed EPA’s Office of Ground-Water and Drinking Water Economic, Legislative and Policy Analysis Branch and has made contributions on a variety of environmental and policy issues, as reflected in his published works. He is the author and editor of 60 books, chapters, and major articles on environmental management, policy and law.
Moving towards greater use of renewable energy sources is a good thing to do, and fortunately Virginia is headed in that direction. But there are […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is not merely a house of science, it’s a home for regulation. But the tensions between the two are always […]
Many people talk about “market-like” regulation such as cap and trade programs to reduce carbon dioxide. But why be “market-like” when you can use the […]
At the Research Triangle Institute in November 2008, David Schnare, Director of the Jefferson Institute’s Center for Environmental Stewardship, discussed climate change from a political […]
There are four truths to the climate change policy debate that environmental activists do not really want known. The first is that greenhouse gas reduction […]